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I know it’s the rough and tumble of the House of Commons but mocking somebody’s accent feels a step too far. Not a party political thing. I winced when Angela Rayner mocked Sunak’s height.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I know it’s the rough and tumble of the House of Commons but mocking somebody’s accent feels a step too far. Not a party political thing. I winced when Angela Rayner mocked Sunak’s height.
I know it’s not an original point but “migrants” surely?
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I know it’s not an original point but “migrants” surely?
Paint it in the colour of standardised cigarette packaging? Picked by focus groups as the most off-putting colour
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Paint it in the colour of standardised cigarette packaging? Picked by focus groups as the most off-putting colour
I think we may have a new omnishambles budget
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I think we may have a new omnishambles budget
Is being ‘(re)arraigned’ a thing here. Or is it like “pressing charges”, something that’s been imported from America?
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Is being ‘(re)arraigned’ a thing here. Or is it like “pressing charges”, something that’s been imported from America?
This is what media needs to focus on. He can’t play the immature teenager card. He was practically middle aged.
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is what media needs to focus on. He can’t play the immature teenager card. He was practically middle aged.
Is it me or do people who are mildly supportive of Lammy’s plan to dramatically reduce jury trials think that criminals are more likely to ‘get away with it’ with a jury? As opposed to, you know, that they might actually be innocent.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Is it me or do people who are mildly supportive of Lammy’s plan to dramatically reduce jury trials think that criminals are more likely to ‘get away with it’ with a jury? As opposed to, you know, that they might actually be innocent.
All rather ironic given until a few weeks ago, Farage was considered to have a good awareness of the importance of political ‘hygiene’
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
All rather ironic given until a few weeks ago, Farage was considered to have a good awareness of the importance of political ‘hygiene’
So many leading lights in the Brexit campaign turned out to be racists.
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
So many leading lights in the Brexit campaign turned out to be racists.
He said
They said
They said
New: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui.
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
He said
They said
They said
Reposted by NG
When I hear Farage talking about rounding up and deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me and telling me that “Hitler was right”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
When I hear Farage talking about rounding up and deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me and telling me that “Hitler was right”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Weird how we can go from “the right to trial by jury is a bulwark against tyranny” to the government abolishing it fir all but the most serious of cases just like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Weird how we can go from “the right to trial by jury is a bulwark against tyranny” to the government abolishing it fir all but the most serious of cases just like that.
On a red-eye flight? Of course. They literally give you them in First.
Is it acceptable to wear pyjamas on a flight?
61% of Brits say no, echoing US transport secretary Sean Duffy who criticised PJ-clad passengers yesterday
However, generations differ: 71% of 18-24yr olds say it is acceptable, compared to 11% of over-65s
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
61% of Brits say no, echoing US transport secretary Sean Duffy who criticised PJ-clad passengers yesterday
However, generations differ: 71% of 18-24yr olds say it is acceptable, compared to 11% of over-65s
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
On a red-eye flight? Of course. They literally give you them in First.
Sounds like he’s admitting that it’s substantially true. Defence seems to be;
1. It was a long time ago when I was barely a teenager
2. Times were different
3. I wasn’t trying to be deliberately hurtful.
1. It was a long time ago when I was barely a teenager
2. Times were different
3. I wasn’t trying to be deliberately hurtful.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Sounds like he’s admitting that it’s substantially true. Defence seems to be;
1. It was a long time ago when I was barely a teenager
2. Times were different
3. I wasn’t trying to be deliberately hurtful.
1. It was a long time ago when I was barely a teenager
2. Times were different
3. I wasn’t trying to be deliberately hurtful.
For British citizens lucky enough to have an EU passport, this combined with the introduction of ETIAS next year will make travel between the U.K. and Schengen a bit more bureaucratic. You’ll need both passports and unless carriers change their systems, you’ll have to input passport details twice.
No permission, no travel: UK set to enforce ETA scheme
From February 2026, visitors will not be able to travel to the UK without advance permission.
www.gov.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
For British citizens lucky enough to have an EU passport, this combined with the introduction of ETIAS next year will make travel between the U.K. and Schengen a bit more bureaucratic. You’ll need both passports and unless carriers change their systems, you’ll have to input passport details twice.
How likely is it that ministers have a criminal conviction (motoring offences excepted)?
The public has no right to know if any of the ministers who day to day make the decisions that have huge impacts on their lives have criminal records, the information watchdog has ruled.
We will be appealing...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
We will be appealing...
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
Ministers’ criminal records can stay secret, rules watchdog
The Information Commissioner’s Office concluded that disclosing how many of those in office had declared prior convictions could breach their privacy
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
How likely is it that ministers have a criminal conviction (motoring offences excepted)?
Is “illegal immigrants” acceptable terminology if the government uses it?
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Is “illegal immigrants” acceptable terminology if the government uses it?
I see that Lord Glasman is losing his shit again about something that people use to make their work ID more visible.
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I see that Lord Glasman is losing his shit again about something that people use to make their work ID more visible.
Surely they can’t all be lying.
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Surely they can’t all be lying.
Reposted by NG
It seems that it is wrong to tar the whole Reform Party with the same brush as Nathan Gill and the many Party members who openly make racist comments,
BUT
we should do that to immigrants because a few are bad people.
BUT
we should do that to immigrants because a few are bad people.
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It seems that it is wrong to tar the whole Reform Party with the same brush as Nathan Gill and the many Party members who openly make racist comments,
BUT
we should do that to immigrants because a few are bad people.
BUT
we should do that to immigrants because a few are bad people.
Sentencing is weird isn’t it? Serious as it is, then and a half years for a crime that didn’t directly harm anyone yet a sex offender who ruined somebody’s life might get less than half of that.
Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches
Police say Nathan Gill received at least £30,000 while he was an MEP, from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Sentencing is weird isn’t it? Serious as it is, then and a half years for a crime that didn’t directly harm anyone yet a sex offender who ruined somebody’s life might get less than half of that.
I didn’t realise the CPS could appeal against a successful appeal
Prosecutors try to overturn Quran burning acquittal bit.ly/49yIT2T but @NatSecSoc says that is an attack on free speech even if it offends people
CPS appeals against acquittal of man convicted of burning Quran
Campaigners fear ‘blasphemy laws by the back door’ as prosecutors query the decision to overturn Hamit Coskun’s conviction
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I didn’t realise the CPS could appeal against a successful appeal
People who shoplift or break the speed limit are criminals. They threaten the safety of women and children. Right?
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
People who shoplift or break the speed limit are criminals. They threaten the safety of women and children. Right?
Well I guess if your nearest and most powerful neighbour is threatening to annex you, it’s understandable to be a bit ‘obsessive’ about it
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Well I guess if your nearest and most powerful neighbour is threatening to annex you, it’s understandable to be a bit ‘obsessive’ about it
it was actually a journalist for the Independent, not Tony Benn as is commonly believed, who said ‘how a state treats its aliens is how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it’. Seemed timely after yesterday’s announcements. Was a very Tony Benn thing to say though.
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
it was actually a journalist for the Independent, not Tony Benn as is commonly believed, who said ‘how a state treats its aliens is how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it’. Seemed timely after yesterday’s announcements. Was a very Tony Benn thing to say though.